Patrick Meister

Patrick MEISTER, Dr. habil. (Lecturer)

patrick.meister@univie.ac.at

Room Number: 2B385
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53470

Research Interests:

My research is focused on the most fundamental aspects of how life and Earth interacted throughout possibly the last 4.4 billion years. The essential mechanisms are, on the one hand, that organisms catalyse biogeochemical processes otherwise inhibited under Earth surface conditions and therefore alter global geochemical cycles. On the other hand, biotic effects on mineral formation have fundamentally impacted Earth’s geological record.

Understanding these interactions requires an interdisciplinary approach, using insights from geobiology, sedimentology, (micro)biology, (bio)geochemistry, palaeontology, mineralogy, and environmental sciences. My studies include ongoing processes in modern systems, signatures in the geological record, and process-oriented computer models, with the overarching goal to gain fundamental knowledge about the role that life has played in Earth’s exogenic cycle.

News:

New Publication (April 2023): Dolomit: Nanostrukturen im Schlamm des Neusiedler Sees nachgewiesen

New modelling paper in Frontiers in Earth Science

Projects:

Publications (taken from u:cris)

2024

Evaporite sequences as archives for Mg isotope compositions of seawater - Evidence from a Tethys marginal shelf basin in the Anisian. / Hu, Zhongya; Li, Weiqiang; Hohl, Simon V. et al.
In: Chemical Geology, Vol. 668, 122346, 20.11.2024, p. 1-13.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Thermodynamics and kinetics of mineral surface reactions in ambient solutions. / Meister, Patrick; Böttcher, Michael E.
Nucleation and growth of sedimentary minerals. 2024. (IAS Special Publications).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Radiocarbon ages of microcrystalline authigenic carbonate in Lake Neusiedl (Austria) suggest millennial-scale growth of Mg-calcite and protodolomite. / Neuhuber, Stephanie; Gier, Susanne ; Draganits, Erich et al.
In: Sedimentology, Vol. 71, No. 3, 04.2024, p. 912-940.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Fossilized giant sulfide-oxidizing bacteria from the Devonian Hollard Mound seep deposit, Morocco. / Smrzka, Daniel; Zwicker, Jennifer; Schulz-Vogt, Heide et al.
In: Geobiology, Vol. 22, No. 1, e12581, 01.01.2024.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

2023

Spherulitic mineral growth: an unreliable biosignature but a great process indicator. / Meister, Patrick; Wolf, Stephan.
Nucleation and growth of sedimentary minerals. 2023. (IAS Special Publications).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

No biological effect on magnesium isotope fractionation during stromatolite growth. / Hu, Zhongya; Hohl, Simon V.; Viehmann, Sebastian et al.
In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 358, 09.08.2023, p. 1-11.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Nanoscale Pathway of Modern Dolomite Formation in a Shallow, Alkaline Lake. / Meister, Patrick; Frisia, Silvia; Dódony, István et al.
In: Crystal Growth & Design, Vol. 23, No. 5, 03.05.2023, p. 3202–3212.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Temporal evolution of shallow marine diagenetic environments: Insights from carbonate concretions. / Loyd, Sean (Corresponding author); Meister, Patrick; Liu, Bo et al.
In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Vol. 351, 01.05.2023.

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2022

Spherulitic mineral growth: auto-deformation, growth front nucleation, or semi-oriented attachment? / Meister, Patrick.
Nucleation and growth of sedimentary minerals. 2022. (IAS Special Publications).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

The role of microorganisms in iron reduction in marine sediments. / Reyes, Carolina (Corresponding author); Meister, Patrick.
Systems Biogeochemistry of Major Marine Biomes . ed. / Aninda Mazumdar. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2022. p. 41-60.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Microbial alkalinity production and silicate alteration in methane charged marine sediments: implications for porewater chemistry and diagenetic carbonate formation. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Herda, Gerhard; Petrishcheva, Elena et al.
In: Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol. 9, 756591, 17.01.2022.

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2021

Microfacies and C/O-isotopes in lacustrine dolomites reflect variable environmental conditions in the Germanic Basin (Arnstadt Formation, Upper Triassic). / Hofbauer, Barbara; Viehmann, Sebastian; Gier, Susanne et al.
In: Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol. 114, No. 1, 17.12.2021, p. 66-87.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Ostwald’s step rule: a consequence of growth kinetics and nano-scale energy landscape. / Meister, Patrick.
2021.

Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed

2020

Ostwald’s step rule: a consequence of growth kinetics and nano-scale energy landscape. / Meister, Patrick.
Nucleation and growth of sedimentary minerals. 2020. (IAS Special Publications).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Carbonates and cherts as archives of seawater chemistry and habitability on a carbonate platform 3.35 Ga ago: Insights from Sm/Nd dating and trace element analysis from the Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia. / Viehmann, Sebastian (Corresponding author); Reitner, Joachim; Tepe, Nathalie et al.
In: Precambrian Research, Vol. 344, 105742, 15.07.2020.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Authigenic formation of Ca-Mg carbonates in the shallow alkaline Lake Neusiedl, Austria. / Fussmann, Dario; von Hoyningen-Huene, A.J.E.; Reimer, Andreas et al.
In: Biogeosciences, Vol. 17, No. 7, 2085, 16.04.2020, p. 2085–2106.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

2019

The Carbon-Isotope Record of the Sub-Seafloor Biosphere. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Reyes, Carolina.
In: Geosciences, Vol. 9, No. 12, 507, 05.12.2019.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Factors controlling the carbon isotope composition of dissolved inorganic carbon and methane in marine porewater: An evaluation by reaction-transport modelling. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Liu, Bo; Khalili, Arzhang et al.
In: Journal of Marine Systems, Vol. 200, 103227, 12.2019.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Precipitation of dolomite from seawater on a Carnian coastal plain (Dolomites, northern Italy): evidence from carbonate petrography and Sr isotopes. / Rieder, Maximilian; Wegner, Wencke; Horschinegg, Monika et al.
In: Solid earth, Vol. 10, No. 4, 31.07.2019, p. 1243-1267.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Dolomite formation by nanocrystal aggregation in the dolomia principale of the brenta dolomites (Northern Italy). / Meister, P.; Frisia, S.
In: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, Vol. 125, No. 1, 03.2019, p. 183-196.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Metal cycling in Mesoproterozoic microbial habitats: Insights from trace elements and stable Cd isotopes in stromatolites. / Viehmann, Sebastian; Hohl, Simon V.; Kraemer, Dennis et al.
In: Gondwana Research, Vol. 67, 03.2019, p. 101-114.

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Sulphur and carbon isotopes as tracers of past sub-seafloor microbial activity. / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Brunner, Benjamin; Picard, Aude et al.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, No. 1, 604, 24.01.2019.

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2018

Anaerobic methane oxidation inducing carbonate precipitation at abiogenic methane seeps in the Tuscan archipelago (Italy). / Meister, Patrick (Corresponding author); Wiedling, Johanna; Lott, Christian et al.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 13, No. 12, e0207305, 19.12.2018.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

The formation of authigenic and early diagenetic minerals and their potential to preserve signatures of past biogeochemical conditions. / Meister, Patrick.
2018. (Habilitation Thesis).

Publications: Book › Peer Reviewed

2017

Mineralogical and geochemical analysis of Fe-phases in drill-cores from the Triassic Stuttgart Formation at Ketzin CO₂ storage site before CO₂ arrival. / Kasina, Monika; Bock, Susanne; Würdemann, Hilke et al.
In: Environmental Earth Sciences, Vol. 76, No. 4, 161, 16.02.2017.

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